Jonathan Abrams is founder and CEO of Friendster, one of the leading online social network services. With more than 4 million members, the company attracted $13 million in VC money last year.
In his well-attended SXSW Interactive ...READ»
Bruce Sterling is an internationally acclaimed author who lives in Austin, Texas. Having produced a steady stream of enlightening essays and ground-breaking science fiction since 1976, Sterling's most recent book is Tomorrow Now.
In ...READ»
Andy Mathis is senior business development manager for Motorola's iDEN Subscriber Group. Corey Carbonara is a professor of telecommunication in communication studies at Baylor University, as well as director of the school's Digital ...READ»
Tantek Celik is a software development lead at Microsoft Corp. Joi Ito founded Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communication technologies. Pete Kaminski iniated the Social Software Alliance and serves as CTO for ...READ»
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Jon Lebkowsky serves as CEO of ...READ»
Howard Rheingold was one of the creators HotWired, as well as editor of The Whole Earth Review and editor-in-chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. More recently, Rheingold wrote the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social ...READ»
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Anil Dash works as VP of ...READ»
Ethan Watters wrote the book Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment.
His SXSW Interactive addressed how our self-chosen communities are nodes in large, complex networks of such groups. What follows ...READ»
Joe Trippi is former campaign manager for Howard Dean. He is generally credited with conceptualizing the decentralized Internet-based structure that helped the governor of Vermont build early momentum in the bid for the Democratic ...READ»
As campaigns director for MoveOn, Eli Pariser oversees a million-plus address email list comprising progressive activists. Zack Exley serves as MoveOn's organizing director, a position that allows him to combine his background in ...READ»
Marissa Mayer works as director of consumer Web products at Google and has spearheaded almost every user-interface change to the Google Web site for the past four years. She also teaches computer programming at Stanford.
In her ...READ»
Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies. She also writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times and maintains the Dynamist blog.
In her presentation at SXSW Interactive, ...READ»
Hank Jones is a 23-year software and technology lawyer who's written widely about open source since 1999. Chip Rosenthal is an independent open-source software development consultant. Don Shafer, co-founder of the Athens Group, an ...READ»
Craig Newmark launched Craig's List in 1995 to better help people connect through events around San Francisco. The site has since grown into a national community.
While the service primarily helps people with everyday challenges -- ...READ»
Brenda Laurel is chair of the graduate media design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Co-founder of Purple Moon, a girl-centric, girl-empowerment media company, Laurel also recently edited the MIT ...READ»
With 24 years of experience in telecommunications and wireless, Liz Maxfield currently works with CFX, a firm providing engineering, construction, and surveying services. Kevin McKeand is president of TexLink Communications, which ...READ»
Kevin Werbach is an independent technology analyst that advises companies and writes about emerging technologies in communications, media, and software. The former editor of Release 1.0, he also previously serves as Counsel for New ...READ»
